Thursday, August 14, 2014

In Ferguson Protests, Media Somehow See Case Against Gun Rights

Anti-police protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, following the
shooting of an unarmed teenager after an altercation there. Police have
chosen to respond to public anger over this shooting (as well as
opportunistic rioting and looting) not with deescalation of a tense
situation but by pointing a lot of guns at citizens and using their
monopoly on force to disperse protesters. They’ve used tear gas, rubber
bullets, sound control and flash-bang grenades. They’ve hidden the
identity of the policeman who killed the teenager. Media have been
arrested and told to turn off their cameras. A local alderman was
arrested for being out and about.

The situation in Ferguson is not great, Bob. And so I found one reaction among liberal journalists to be particularly curious. Let’s look at a few tweets:
Huffington Post politics and immigration reporter Elise Foley also was disdainful toward gun rights, noting that Twitter users actually seemed to think gun rights a good thing, “sadly.”